Bronislaw Malinowski (1923) wrote that people talk not only to convey reflected thoughts and ideas but also to create ties of union between speaker and hearer. He viewed this function of language as "an indispensable element ...

Reynolds, Katsue A; れいのるず秋葉, かつえ(Published by College of Languages, Linguistics ad Literature, University of Hawai'i, distributed by University of Hawaii Press, 2005)

This essay is about how boku, a first person pronoun or self-reference form for males, came into existence in Japanese. It appeared rather abruptly in Japanese around the time of the Meiji Restoration, and it has quickly ...

The change from the feudal period to modern times via the Meiji Restoration (1868) was the most turbulent and complex in the history of Japan, and many details of the change remain unexplained. This paper will shed new ...

This study attempts to understand the contemporary problems for Japanese women from a feminist point of view by analyzing the media discourse that dealt with a series of political incidents triggered by the confession of ...

The argument that female speakers are under the pressure of the "femininity constraint" has already been accepted by many linguists studying the relationship between language and gender. Women are in most societies expected ...

Japanese is known as a language in which the women’s and men’s talk are much more remarkably different. However, when one inspects the ways in which Japanese women talk at a variety of social levels, a complex interaction ...

The 2000 report by the Prime Minister’s Commission on “Japan's Goals in the 21st Century”, expressed a strong sense of urgency regarding Japan's predicament. Stating that if Japan continued on its present course it would ...